Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan

Time flies, and a hundred years pass in an instant.

During this period, the Primal Spirit Realm remained as usual, with no major wars, but various minor conflicts continued incessantly, causing countless small forces to rise and fall, begin and end.

However, these had little to do with the Li family.

Its isolated geographical location inherently avoided many calamities, and it could not ignite conflicts with surrounding forces.

There was initially a Sea Clan that would periodically erupt in beast tides to harass the family, but after a wager, the Sea Clan could only detour.

Thus, the Li family passed these hundred years very steadily.

Yet, the family's strength didn't greatly improve, as it had reached a bottleneck period; the low-level family members increased continuously, but high-level members scarcely grew.

Fortunately, the Li family was mentally prepared, hence didn't feel a significant disparity, and was slowly accumulating.

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Boom——

On this day, Li Zhirui was cultivating in his Cave Mansion when a violent tremor suddenly erupted beneath him. If he hadn't stopped his cultivation in time to stabilize the Spiritual Energy circulating in his meridians, he might have suffered a backlash.

Quickly converting the Spiritual Energy into Mana, he flew out of the Cave Mansion, expanding his Divine Sense to the limit, probing in all directions to ascertain the extent of the impact.

But this natural disaster was even more severe than he imagined; within the Divine Sense range, the earth seemed to have been ravaged, devastated.

The roars like mountains collapsing and the earth cracking frightened countless living beings into fleeing, then stumbling to the ground, overwhelmed with terror.

Luckily, there weren't too many cracks on the ground, hence the casualties weren't too severe, mainly in the plains area of Shanhai State.

Yet, living beings near mountainous regions might have been buried under the chaotic stones and mud.

"All clansmen heed my command, quickly go to various places in Shanhai State, suppress chaos, and rescue people," Li Zhirui's voice echoed throughout the entire family.

Li Guangjie and a group of Elders turned pale, yet forced themselves to calm down, deploying their utmost skills and arranging all matters immediately.

Soon after, tens of thousands of Spirit Lights flew out from Mount Wanxian, all led by members of Integration and Great Vehicle Realm, who would divide into teams to maintain order across family territories, preventing disturbances during the chaos.

Subsequently, many family members would act, both going to support and bringing various Spiritual Objects, as the preparation time was too short, inevitably leading to some negligence, so the carried Spiritual Objects were insufficient.

Meanwhile, the Divine entities scattered across various places, received transmissions from Xiaoqing, Cang, and Li Mingyao, instructing them to immediately appear to console and protect mortals, then cooperate with the family cultivators.

Under these heavy arrangements, the Li family slowly calmed down, without experiencing great turmoil.

However, many losses were irreparable!

Despite the family having set up formations in every Spirit Mountain and Spirit Field, stabilizing mountains and Earth Qi, the earth shook too violently, causing many Spiritual Objects, especially seedlings, to perish.

Thus, upon hearing the calculated loss value, Li Guangjie felt heartbroken, nearly suffocating, as it amounted to nearly a third of the family's annual income!

But Li Zhirui, Da Qing, and others were more concerned with the cause of the earth tremor.

"Ming Yao, did you find out what caused such a severe tremor, and such widespread impact?"

A look of remorse appeared on Li Mingyao's face, somewhat embarrassed, he said: "Ancestor Rui, I couldn't find out; I initially investigated along the earth veins, but soon felt a frightening, terrifying aura and had to withdraw."

"Oh?"

Li Zhirui's eyes gleamed, and he softly said, "Then this earth tremor is not a natural disaster, but a man-made calamity."

But who on earth possesses such formidable power?

It's important to know that the earthquake's range includes not only Shanhai State, but also Cave Abyss State, the Great Zhou Dynasty, and even further south to the Yumen He Family, where reports of tremors have been received.

Even a Heavenly Immortal doesn't have such terrifying power, right? This affects a third of the coastal region of the East Continent!

"Could it be several Heavenly Immortals joining forces?" Xiaoqing proposed this conjecture.

If that's the case, it would make sense.

But, what matter would be worth several Heavenly Immortals joining forces?

All this is an enigma shrouded in mist before the Li family, completely incomprehensible.

"Recently, the family should increase vigilance and arrange more members to gather information." Li Zhirui advised.

He cannot be blamed for being overly cautious; matters involving Heavenly Immortals are definitely not trivial, the Li family at present, let alone facing the immortals, would suffer great harm and loss even from residual waves.

"Understood!" Li Guangjie naturally understood these principles and immediately responded.

"Should we go to the Heavenly Court and inquire about what happened?" Xiaoqing suggested.

Li Zhirui thought for a moment but shook his head in refusal, looking at Li Mingyao, he said: "Ming Yao, I remember the Earth God lineage mostly gathers and deliberates in the Netherworld, I'll trouble you to make a trip, you might learn something."

Though the Earth God and Yin God are different, the backing of both divine lineages is the same great deity, hence the relationship is naturally close.

Choosing the Earth God instead of inquiring at the Heavenly Court with Li Chengshuo and Li Chengsheng, firstly because the two may not know, and likely would have to ask Ziwei, incurring another obligation.

If such, it would be better to directly trade with the Earth God, possibly gaining more knowledge.